http://www.twitter.com/andrewsavikas
Boston, Massachusetts
CEO at Safari Books Online
Areas of Expertise:
- ebooks
- strategy
- safaribooks
- publishing
- speaking
Andrew Savikas is the CEO at Safari Books Online. He sits on several boards, including the Book Industry Study Group, and is on advisory boards for Bookshare and the University of Michigan Press.
Previously, Andrew led the digital publishing and ebook program and strategy for O'Reilly Media as VP of Digital Initiatives, and was a Program Chair for the Tools of Change for Publishing conference.
Andrew holds a B.S. in Media Studies from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and an MBA from Northeastern University in Boston. He speaks frequently on digital publishing and ebooks, and is also the author of "Word Hacks: Tips & Tools for Taming your Text".
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- Nearly 800 O'Reilly and Microsoft Press titles now available in iBookstore, October 12 2010
- Neat visualization of download ratios for ebook formats offered by O'Reilly, October 01 2010
- Amazon building its own Android App Market?, September 29 2010
- Nearly 1,000 additional O'Reilly and Microsoft Press ebooks now available in Kindle Store, September 22 2010
- O'Reilly ebook bundles now include DAISY talking book format, September 08 2010
- A New Take on the "Pocket Reference" -- Public Beta of new O'Reilly Mobile HTML App, August 25 2010
- Ebook Reseller Wishlist/Scorecard, June 07 2010
- Ebook Reseller Wishlist/Scorecard, June 07 2010
- Yes the iPad is sexy, but global sales are the real ebook growth news, May 07 2010
- Africa's "Gutenberg Moment?", January 05 2010
- Android Rising: O'Reilly Android Apps Gaining Ground on iPhone, December 23 2009
- David Pogue Revisits DRM Question about Ebooks, December 17 2009
- Despite recent gains for books, Games still dominate in the App Store (via @dliman), November 03 2009
- O'Reilly Ebooks Now in Aldiko Online Catalog for Android, October 30 2009
- Customer Loyalty for Mobile Devices, October 06 2009
- A Classic from the Archive: Tim O'Reilly interviewed in 1994, October 05 2009
- The App Store and the Long Tail Part 2: The Real "DRM" At Stake, August 09 2009
- Would an Apple Tablet be an Ereader? Yes and No., July 28 2009
- Can't Get Approval for your App? Sell the Source Code, July 21 2009
- Long Tail Evidence from The App Store, July 20 2009
- Scribd Store a Welcome Addition to Ebook Market (and 650 O'Reilly Titles Included), May 18 2009
- Is Print a Preference or a Habit?, March 16 2009
- O'Reilly Ebooks Now In Stanza Online Catalog, March 06 2009
- "Kindle Killer" Might be Hyperbole, but a Lot to Like About Shortcovers, February 16 2009
- Using the Twitter Search API to Refine TOC Conference Tweet Data, February 15 2009
- O'Reilly Labs: RDF For All of Our Books, Plus Bookworm Ebook Reader, February 10 2009
- Welcome (Back) To O'Reilly Labs, February 10 2009
- Google Opens Mobile Access to Public-Domain Books, February 05 2009
- Popping the Hood on the iPhone Missing Manual App, February 04 2009
- O'Reilly Ebook Bundles Now Available, July 16 2008
- Select O'Reilly Books Soon on Kindle, and as Digital Ebook Bundles, June 20 2008
- Amazon Accused of Anti-Trust Violations "Tied" to Print-On-Demand Terms, May 19 2008
- When Authors Ask Us About the Consequences of "Piracy", April 28 2008
- Amazon Gets Demanding with Print-on-Demand Publishers, March 29 2008
- TOC Conference just around the corner, January 24 2008
- Shelfari and the New Social Contract, November 13 2007
- A Word of Warning about Microsoft Live Writer, October 10 2007
- NY Times Ends Subscription-only Access, September 17 2007
- CFP Open for TOC 2008, Feb. 11-13 in New York, September 10 2007
- Microsoft Open XML Failed ISO Bid Makes Big News, September 05 2007
- eBooks with that "old book" smell, August 23 2007
- Grandma definitely gets MySpace, August 18 2007
- Authors Still Want Publishers, August 16 2007
- Guest Blog: Teens Weigh in on Changes in Publishing, Media, July 25 2007
- Harry Potter's no Magic for Publishers, Retailers, June 27 2007
- TOC Day 3: Parallels between software development and content development, June 21 2007
- Notes from TOC on the future of print, June 20 2007
- Lessons from the Amp'd bankruptcy, June 06 2007
- Science and Nature rejecting Word 2007 Manuscripts, June 04 2007
- Financial Hacking -- Giving Creative Accounting a Good Name, April 20 2007
- An open letter to XML Mind on their recent license changes, March 27 2007
- Gaining XMLMind-share, May 19 2006
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